Iteration Plan for July 2024

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in July. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early August.

Endgame

• July 22, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

Workbench

• Add url handling for settings vscode#212079 @alexr00
• Polish Profiles Editor UX vscode#218162 @sandy081
• Support an icon button style in quick pick vscode#221397 @TylerLeonhardt
• Support panel at the top vscode#50984 @benibenj
• 💪 Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• Improve basic auth proxy support vscode#220034 @chrmarti

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00
• Allow editor.codeActionsOnSave for autoSave afterDelay vscode#200881 @justschen
• Improve where the lightbulb widget appears in the editor and notebook vscode#202767 @justschen
• Improve jumping when Code Lenses appear vscode#216824 @hediet
• Improve the diff editor when rendered in narrow containers vscode#221245 @hediet
• 🏃 Adopt EditContext vscode@207700 @aiday-mar @hediet
• 🏃 Release Monaco Editor @aiday-mar @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Command to Toggle comment for multiple cells vscode#142437 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Proposal for restructuring and cleaning up the context menu in Notebook vscode#219240 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Explore supporting cmd+d across multiple cells vscode#141673 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Improve rendering of large code cell editor (e.g., sticky execution count) vscode#209154 @rebornix
• 💪 Explore hiding/collapsing unchanged cells in Notebook Diff Editor vscode#174152 @DonJayamanne

Search

• 🏃 Explore finalizing FileSearchProvider API vscode#73524 @andreamah
• 🏃 Explore finalizing TextSearchProvider API vscode#59921 @andreamah

Issue Reporter

• 🏃 Continue migrating desktop issue report to auxiliary service approach vscode#213332 @justschen
• Incorporate issue reporter participation into yo code generator vscode#220969 @justschen

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

Language Server Protocol

• Investigate into delaying open event to avoid sending open/close notification pairs to the server when VS Code reads file contents #lsp-848 @dbaeumer

Testing

• ✋ Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• Support stack traces in test messages vscode#214488 @connor4312
• Explore support for related code vscode#126932 @connor4312

Debug

Debug Adapter Protocol

• 💪 Explore green thread support debug-adapter-protocol#339 @connor4312

Terminal

• Adopt esbuild and ship ESM module with xterm.js xterm.js#2878 @Tyriar
• Adopt VS Code scrollbar in xterm.js vscode#216521 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Finalize shellIntegration API vscode#145234 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Iterating on pwsh suggest and PromptInputModel vscode#154662 @Tyriar

Source Control

• 🏃 Graph visualization for Incoming/Ougoing view vscode#215439 @lszomoru
• Adopt shell integration API for git commands vscode#220995 @lszomoru @Tyriar

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Print packaged extension contents on package/publish vscode-vsce#995 @benibenj
• Polish extension auto-update mechanism vscode#219720 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Support reverting merged PR changes vscode-pull-request-github#2103 @alexr00

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore AMD to ESM migration vscode#160416 @jrieken @bpasero

Electron

• Electron 30 upgrade vscode#214394 @deepak1556
• 🏃 V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556
• Adopt basic auth support for net api in utility process vscode#212949 @deepak1556

Documentation

• 💪 Update Getting Started experience doc vsocde-docs#7359 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• Support Exceptions for result return types #wasm-177 @dbaeumer
• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge

[gjsjohnmurray]

• July 24, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: Endgame done

@kieferrm previous endgames have typically started on a Monday. Any reason for this one showing a Wednesday start?

[kieferrm]

• July 24, 2024: Endgame begins
• July 26, 2024: Endgame done

@kieferrm previous endgames have typically started on a Monday. Any reason for this one showing a Wednesday start?

Good catch. Thank you.